Japan is full of surprises!

And honestly, it's full of surprises.

Rome is a city full of surprises.

TR Bullshit. You like the surprises you want.

I'm often asked, what surprises you about the book?

We also had some surprises. Let's take a look.

How many of you here love surprises? Say, Aye.

Then we had one of those little surprises in science.

So, in a year's worth of learning we found a bunch of surprises.

Above all, sophisticated voters will themselves be emotionally intelligent enough to be prepared for surprises.

There's still 97 percent, and either that 97 percent is empty or just full of surprises.

The road to medical marijuana research is paved with surprises and hypocrisy nearly everywhere you look.

We're going to keep being surprised. And almost all the surprises are going to be bad ones.

It was therefore necessary to identify the conditions under which constraints arose in order to avoid surprises .

And it surprises me that no model currently exists that quantifies the effect of environmental factors on human lung health, because that relationship seems so important.

As the Koran promises, patience is rewarded, and there are many surprises a degree of environmental awareness, for instance, and of humans as mere stewards of God's creation, unmatched in the Bible.

So no surprises then that the proportion that actually used clean needles every time they injected in the last week is just about one in 10, and the other nine in 10 are sharing.

The two main surprises were the slowdown in emerging markets, which was slightly sharper and more widespread than anticipated, and Europe s embrace of some truly remarkable reforms though still far short of what is needed.

There were no surprises in the basic thrust of the strategy a structural shift in China s investment and export led growth model toward a more balanced consumer based and services led economy. The transformation reflects both necessity and design.

The attenuation of downside risks and pleasant surprises in developed and emerging economies could lead to a further increase in demand for risky assets (equities and credit), which would reinforce economic recovery via wealth effects and lower borrowing costs.

When health officials tell us confidently that X is going to happen, and then Y happens instead, we lose trust in their leadership. Smart officials are planning for various swine flu pandemic scenarios, and expecting surprises that will force them to change their plans.

When health officials tell us confidently that X is going to happen, and then Y happens instead, we lose trust in their leadership. Smart officials are planning for various swine flu pandemic scenarios, and expecting surprises that will force them to change their plans.

Overcrowded Underground trains and Heathrow s congestion are having an impact, though it is hard to understand why New York wins on these measures. Riding the Subway often brings unpleasant surprises, while JFK Airport is hardly a favorite among travelers (and there remains no fast rail link to it).

The share of countries recording outright deflation in consumer prices (the green line) is higher in 2015 than that of countries experiencing double digit inflation (7 of the total). Whatever nasty surprises may lurk in the future, the global inflation environment is the tamest since the early 1960s.

But the third plenum also provided surprises, including the creation of a leading group within the CCP to steer reform. China used to have a reform commission within the executive branch the establishment of the leading group indicates the CCP s commitment, and that of President Xi Jinping, to comprehensive reform.

The answer is yes in the sense that anything is possible. Nobody I know thinks she is likely to stumble so badly still, the Clintons are known to be accident prone, and they have been full of surprises scandals and scandalettes since they first appeared on the national scene a quarter century ago.

Both traditions, though, were eclipsed by the Chicago school of rational expectations, which has dominated mainstream economics for the last twenty five years. With economic agents supposedly possessing perfect information about all possible contingencies, systemic crises could never happen except as a result of accidents and surprises beyond the reach of economic theory.

My parents had this whole elaborate story about Santa Claus how they had talked to Santa Claus himself and agreed that instead of Santa delivering our presents over the night of Christmas Eve, like he did for every other family who got to open their surprises first thing Christmas morning, our family would give Santa more time.

Yet another reason for the correction is that valuations in stock markets are stretched price earnings ratios are now high, while growth in earnings per share is slackening, and will be subject to further negative surprises as growth and inflation remain low. With uncertainty, volatility, and tail risks on the rise again, the correction could accelerate quickly.

If we think of the Arab revolutions, there are many surprises yet to come. So far, most Arab monarchies have had enough legitimacy, money, and force to survive the waves of popular revolt that have brought down secular republican autocrats like Egypt s Hosni Mubarak and Libya s Muammar el Qaddafi, but we are only two years into the revolutionary process.

But history does not end, and it is forever full of surprises. Francis Fukuyama s End of History and Samuel Huntington s Clash of Civilisations appeared within a mere three years of each other in the 1990 s, and a decade later the return of religion to politics is visible for all to see and for many to suffer.

Trade deficits and surpluses also matter, as do stock market and property valuations, the cyclical outlook for corporate profits, and positive or negative surprises for economic growth and inflation. On most of these grounds, the dollar has been the world s most attractive currency since 2009 but as economic recovery spreads from the US to Japan and Europe, the tables are starting to turn.

Chinese experts are now debating a key governance question which top level architecture would enable the country to adopt the reforms needed to meet global and domestic pressures? Investors are concerned about Chinese equities erratic performance, regulatory risks, and policy surprises, as well as the uncertainties stemming from greater volatility in asset prices, including property prices, interest rates, and the exchange rate.

Second, many people do see the 7 return on stocks as a reasonable expectation, and would jump at the chance to grab it plus the opportunity of surprises on the upside but they do not think that they can afford to run the downside risks. Indeed, the world seems a much more risky place than it seemed five or ten years ago.

CAMBRIDGE One of the biggest economic surprises of 2015 is that the stunning drop in global oil prices did not deliver a bigger boost to global growth. Despite the collapse in prices, from over 115 per barrel in June 2014 to 45 at the end of November 2015, most macroeconomic models suggest that the impact on global growth has been less than expected perhaps 0.5 of global GDP.